I would feel better about this if the first major cuts were military, billionaire tax cuts, and hush money to whistelblowers and hookers But instead they will cut Grandma's pension, medicine, food, and education to children, housing for vets and disabled, etc So NO I do not support this bill

Trump, Ryan and congressional republicans have added trillions to the deficit! Since the 80s, whenever the republicans are in power they run up the deficit and after they get booted out, they blame the democrats and trot out the balanced budget amendment. So predictable and so pathetic.

I can see this going wrong. There needs to be massive budget overhauls. But a stop all until we balance is not the best way to do it.

Considering the first instinct of Republicans in Congress is to cut spending on useful social programs without raising taxes to compensate, I'd have to say I don't support this legislation.

I absolutely don’t support or endorse a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. Every time the Republican win they whine about the deficit all the while piling up record breaking debt. Reagan broke all records for debt, then George W just like Reagan broke all previous records and now Trump is doing the same thing — in just 2 years he has just like his conservative predecessors amassed more debt than all the presidents in the history of America. The only balanced budget we’ve had was by the Democrat Clinton. Don’t believe it look it up. Also, contrary to popular conservative myth Obama brought down George W’s debt. Trump ran it back up and eclipsed what was there when he started also eclipsing every previous president in history— not just Obama. All an amendment would would do is provide the perfect pretext to gut all the social programs that conservatives hate — as they continue to propagandize the trickledown fraud. Come on people awaken and resist.

Republicans caused the huge deficit with tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses. Also adding to the deficit are the security expenses for Trump’s golf trips and his family’s overseas businesses. And so they want to fix things by balancing the budget by cutting Social Security, which adds nothing to the deficit, and Medicare and Medicaid. Just say no.

Historically, it has been necessary on an emergency basis such as war or economic decline to go into debt to fund the military or prevent economic decline from worsening and causing greater hardship for people. Such an amendment would reduce the government’s ability to respond to these situations, taking potentially effective options off the table. I think it’s a bad idea, especially since due to the tax reform package of 2018 which has added trillions to our deficit means less financial maneuvering room because more of our gross domestic product will go to service our debt leaving less money available in an emergency. For those who want a cut in military spending, go read the Pulitzer winning Pro Publica recent article on the Navy. I don’t think the described circumstances exist only n the Navy.

This will not work until the tax structure is changed so that the wealthy and businesses pay their fair share of taxes.

How about a amendment that pins our military spending to 1% of the GDP? Or maybe 5% of the federal budget? How about a amendment that our federal government can’t cook the account books by swapping budget lines around and that every dept. MUST BE ABLE TO COMPLETE A AUDIT? How about the equal rights amendment? Or the Voting Rights Act? There is a lot of things the so-called “conservative” could be doing that would actually be “conservative” rather than this austerity scam they keep trying to foist off on us. Trickledown economics is just piss and supply side economics is too. Reagan definitively proved that the deficit doesn’t matter. I’m so tired of the old Republicans wheezing lies. It’s like hearing the same stupid story from a crabby old uncle for the billionth time. The government is not a person, not a household, and not a business. The federal budget is not like your f’ing checkbook. Those methods don’t apply. Just let that myth die already.

This is just a sneaky attempt to take money and programs away from those who need it. Tax the richest more and big business. No caps on estate and inheritance taxes. Politicians should receive same benefits as the people do. Stop loopholes for the rich.